From the AP
The easygoing, smooth jazz star Kenny G makes an unlikely rebel. But he had to put his sax down when his longtime record label insisted that he do yet another album of standards.
The G-man saw no point in following other older artists like Rod Stewart and Barry Manilow down the well-worn path of playing cover tunes. So he arranged an amicable divorce from Arista Records in order to return to making original music.
“All my success in the past … have always been my original compositions played the way that I play and people seem to connect with that,” said Kenny G, in a telephone interview from his Malibu, California, home. “I lost sight of that a little bit and I’m glad to be going back to my roots and re-establishing the integrity that I’ve had in my music.
